Books - History of Astronomy
Book Lists - TOC
Books - History of Astronomy
Books - Early Astronomy
Books - Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler
Books - Galileo
Books - Newton
Books - 18th and 19th Centuries
Books - 20th and 21st Centuries
Books - Telescopes and Observatories
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Books - History of Astronomy
History of Astronomy - Wikipedia
categories: History of Astronomy - Wikipedia
Astronomers by Era - Wikipedia
Astronomers by Nationality - Wikipedia
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Astronomiae Historia
History of Astronomy
Michael A. Hoskin (ed.)
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy
1997 - Cambridge University Press - 392 pp
5
Michael A. Hoskin (ed.)
The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy
1999 - Cambridge University Press - 380 p
none
Michael A. Hoskin (ed.)
The General History of Astronomy
1984 - Cambridge University Press - 4 volumes
none
Heather Couper
The History of Astronomy
2007 - Firefly Books - 288 p
3
John Lankford
History of Astronomy:
An Encyclopedia
(Garland Encyclopedias in the History of Science, Vol 1)
1996 - Routledge - 594 p
none
M. S. Longair
The Cosmic Century:
A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology
2006 - Cambridge University Press - 545 p
1
John David North
Cosmos:
An Illustrated History of
Astronomy and Cosmology
2008 - University Of Chicago Press - rev ed - 736 p
none
John David North
The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology
1994 - Norton - 697 p
2
Peter Aughton
The Story of Astronomy:
From Babylonian Stargazers to the Search for the Big Bang
2008 - Quercus - 222 p
1
Ian Glass
Revolutionaries of the Cosmos:
The Astro-Physicists
2006 - Oxford University Press - 332 p
none
Anton Pannekoek
A History of Astronomy
1961 - Interscience Pub. - 521 pp
1
Frederic L. Holmes (ed.)
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
1980 - Scribner - 18 volumes
2
Marcia Bartusiak
The Day We Found the Universe
2009 - Pantheon Books - 337 p
5
Marcia Bartusiak
Archives of the Universe:
100 Discoveries That Transformed Our
Understanding of the Cosmos
2006 - Vintage - 720 p
none
Marcia Bartusiak
Archives of the Universe:
A Treasury of Astronomy's
Historic Works of Discovery
2004 - Pantheon Books - 695 p
2
Patrick Moore
Watchers of the Stars:
The Scientific Revolution
1973 - Putnam - 239 pp
2
Willy Ley
Watchers of the Skies:
An Informal History of Astronomy
from Babylon to the Space Age
1963 - 528 pp
none
Charles-Albert Reichen
A History of Astronomy
1963 - 105 pp
none
John Dorschner
Astronomy, a Popular History
1975 - Van Nostrand Reinhold - 207 pp
1
David Stanley Evans
Under Capricorn:
A History of Southern Hemisphere Astronomy
1988 - Adam Hilger -
none
Patrick Moore
The Picture History of Astronomy
1972 - Grosset and Dunlap - 4th rev. ed. - 253 p
1
Patrick Moore
The Picture History of Astronomy
1961 - Grosset and Dunlap - 253 pp
1
Peter Whitfield
The Mapping of the Heavens
1995 - Pomegranate Artbooks - 134 pp
1
Robert Wilson
Astronomy Through the Ages:
The Story of the Human Attempt
to Understand the Universe
1997 - Princeton University Press - 302 pp
1
Ronald A. Schorn
Planetary Astronomy:
From Ancient Times to the Third Millennium
1998 - Texas A&M University Press - 376 pp
1
David Leverington
Babylon to Voyager and Beyond:
A History of Planetary Astronomy
2003 - Cambridge University Press - 568 p
none
Colin A. Ronan
Discovering the Universe:
A History of Astronomy
1971 - 248 pp
none
Edward W. Kolb
Blind Watchers of the Sky:
The People and Ideas That Shaped
Our View of the Universe
1996 - Addison-Wesley - 338 p
1
Daniel J. Boorstin
The Discoverers:
A History of Man's Search to Know
His World and Himself
1983 - Random House - 745 p
19
Stanley L. Jaki
Planets and Planetarians:
A History of Theories of the
Origin of Planetary Systems
1977 - Wiley - 266 p
1
C. M. Linton
From Eudoxus to Einstein:
A History of Mathematical Astronomy
2004 - Cambridge University Press - 532 p
none
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Books - Early Astronomy
Astronomers by Era - Wikipedia
Ancient Astronomers - Wikipedia
Medieval Astronomers - Wikipedia
8th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
15th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
Categories: History of Astronomy - Wikipedia
Ancient Astronomy - Wikipedia
Babylonian Astronomy - Wikipedia
Ancient Greek Astronomy - Wikipedia
Hindu Astronomy - Wikipedia
Chinese Astronomy - Wikipedia
Islamic Astronomy - Wikipedia
Medieval European Astronomy - Wikipedia
Ptolemy - Wikipedia
Kenneth Brecher and Michael Feirtag
Astronomy of the Ancients
1979 - MIT Press - 206 p
1
James Evans
The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy
1998 - Oxford University Press - 496 p
none
J. L. E. Dreyer
A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler
1953 - Dover Publications - 2nd ed. - 438 p
2
O. Neugebauer
A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy
1975 - Springer Verlag -
none
O. Neugebauer
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
1969 - Dover Publications - 2nd ed. - 240 pages
none
John David North
Stonehenge:
A New Interpretation of
Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos
1996 - Free Press - 609 p
3
James Cornell
The First Stargazers
An Introduction to the Origins of Astronomy
1981 - Scribner - 262 p
1
Evan Hadingham
Early Man and the Cosmos
1984 - Walker and Co. - 271 p
6
Anthony Aveni
People and the Sky:
Our Anscestors and the Cosmos
2008 - Thames and Hudson -
none
Edwin C. Krupp
Echoes of the Ancient Skies:
The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations
2003 - Dover Publications - 416 p
1
Edwin C. Krupp
Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings:
Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power
1996 - Wiley - 384 p
1
Edwin C. Krupp
In Search of Ancient Astronomies
1978 - Doubleday - 300 p
2
Giulio Magli
Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy:
From Giza to Easter Island
2009 - Copernicus Books - 444 p
2
Asger Aaboe
Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy
2001 - Springer-Verlag
none
W. M. O'Neil
Early Astronomy from Babylonia to Copernicus
1986 214 pp
none
Anthony F. Aveni
Stairways to the Stars:
Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures
1999 - Wiley - 240 p
2
Anthony F. Aveni
The Ancient Astronomers
1993 - St. Remy Press; Smithsonian Books - 176 p
3
Thomas Heath
Aristarchus of Samos:
The Ancient Copernicus
2004 - Dover Publications - 448 p
none
Michael A. B. Deakin
Hypatia of Alexandria:
Mathematician and Martyr
2007 - Prometheus Books - 231 p
1
Barbara C. Sproul
Primal Myths:
Creation Myths Around the World
1979 - Harper and Row - 373 p
1
Ray A. Williamson
Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indian
1987 - University of Oklahoma Press - 366 p
1
J. McKim Malville and Claudia Putnam
Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest
1993 - Johnson Books; rev ed - 112 p
electronic book
1
Dorcas S. Miller
Stars of the First People:
Native American Star Myths and Constellations
1997 - Pruett Pub. Co. - 346 p
2
John MacDonald
The Arctic Sky:
Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore, and Legend
1998 - Royal Ontario Museum/Nunavut Research Institute - 313 p
1
Michael Hamilton Morgan
Lost History:
The Enduring Legacy of Muslim
Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
2007 - National Geographic - 301 p
4
Bill Scheppler
Al-Biruni:
Master Astronomer and Muslim Scholar of the Eleventh Century
2006 - Rosen Pub. Group - 112 p
1
George Sarton
A History of Science:
Hellenistic Science and Culture in
the Last Three Centuries B.C.
1959 - Harvard University Press -
none
Jo Marchant
Decoding the Heavens:
Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer
2008 - Arrow Books Ltd. - 336 p
the 2000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism
none
David Edwin Pingree, Bruce Chandler, and Sara Schechner
Eastern Astrolabes
(Historic Scientific Instruments of the Adler Planetarium)
2009 - Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum - 268 p
none
James E. Morrison
The Astrolabe
2007 - Janus - 438 p
none
Bruce Stephenson, Marvin Bolt, and Anna Felicity Friedman
The Universe Unveiled:
Instruments and Images Through History
2000 - Cambridge University Press - 152 p
none
Gerard L'E Turner
Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900:
An Introduction
1998 - University of California Press - 128 p
none
Gerard L'E. Turner
Elizabethan Instrument Makers:
The Origins of the London Trade in
Precision Instrument Making
2001 - Oxford University Press, USA - 330 p
none
Harriet Wynter and Anthony John Turner
Scientific Instruments
1975 - Scribner - 239 p
2
Silvio A. Bedini
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
1964 - Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution - 184 p
1
Robert Grant
History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages
to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
1852 - R. Baldwin -
none
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Books - Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler
16th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
17th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
German Astronomers - Wikipedia
Danish Astronomers - Wikipedia
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) - Wikipedia
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) - Wikipedia
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) - Wikipedia
Great Books of the Western World. 15:
Ptolemy; Copernicus; Kepler
1990 - Encyclopaedia Britannica - 2nd ed.
4
Thomas S. Kuhn
The Copernican Revolution:
Planetary Astronomy in the
Development of Western Thought
1957 - Harvard University Press - 297 p
1
Owen Gingerich
Nicolaus Copernicus:
Making the Earth a Planet
2005 - Oxford University Press - 124 p
1
Owen Gingerich
The Book Nobody Read:
Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
2004 - Walker and Company - 306 p
5
Owen Gingerich
The Eye of Heaven:
Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
1993 - AIP Press - 442 pages
none
Owen Gingerich
The Great Copernicus Chase and Other
Adventures in Astronomical History
1992 - Cambridge University Press - 316 p
none
Jan Adamczewski
Nicolaus Copernicus and His Epoch
1970 - Copernicus Society of America - 160 p
2
Angus Armitage
The World of Copernicus (Sun, Stand Thou Still)
1947 - New American Library - 165 p
1
Angus Armitage
Sun, Stand Thou Still:
The Life and Work of Copernicus, the Astronomer
1947 - H. Schuman - 210 p
1
Angus Armitage
Copernicus, the Founder of Modern Astronomy
1957 - A.S. Barnes - 236 p
2
Henry Thomas
Copernicus
1960 - Messner - 192 p
1
Catherine M. Andronik
Copernicus:
Founder of Modern Astronomy
2002 - Enslow Publishers - 112 p
6
Howard Margolis
It Started with Copernicus:
How Turning the World Inside Out
Led to the Scientific Revolution
2002 - McGraw-Hill - 224 p
1
Hans Blumenberg
The Genesis of the Copernican World
1987 - MIT Press - 772 p
1
Todd Goble
Nicholas Copernicus and the Founding of Modern Astronomy
2004 - Morgan Reynolds Pub. - 144 p
2
Barbara A. Somervill
Nicolaus Copernicus:
Father of Modern Astronomy
2005 - Compass Point Books - 112 p
3
William T. Vollmann
Uncentering the Earth:
Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
2006 - Atlas Books/Norton - 295 p
2
Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution:
From Copernicus to Newton
758 p
1
Norriss S. Hetherington
Planetary Motions:
A Historical Perspective
2006 - Greenwood Press - 224 p
2
Jack Repcheck
Copernicus' Secret:
How the Scientific Revolution Began
2007 - Simon and Schuster - 239 p
4
A. Koyré
The Astronomical Revolution:
Coperincus -- Kepler -- Borelli
1973 - Dover -
none
Dennis Richard Danielson
The First Copernican:
Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution
2006 - Walker and Company - 264 p
2
Mary Gow
Tycho Brahe:
Astronomer
2002 - Enslow Publishers - 128 p
3
Don Nardo
Tycho Brahe:
Pioneer of Astronomy
2008 - Compass Point Books - 112 p
3
John A. Gade
The Life and Times of Tycho Brahe
1947 - Princeton University Press - 209 p
1
Victor E. Thoren
The Lord of Uraniborg:
A Biography of Tycho Brahe
1990 - Cambridge
none
Francis Beckett and Charles Christensen
Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg and Stjerneborg on the Island of Hveen
1921 - Oxford University Press -
none
J. L. E. Dreyer
Tycho Brahe
1890 - Adam and Charles Black -
none
Kitty Ferguson
Tycho and Kepler:
The Unlikely Partnership that Forever
Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens
2002 - Walker and Co. - 402 p
2
Joshua Gilder
Heavenly Intrigue:
Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder
Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries
2004 - Doubleday - 304 p
2
Max Caspar
Kepler
1993 - Dover Publications - 441 p
1
James R. Voelkel
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy
1999 - Oxford University Press - 141 p
3
Arthur Koestler
The Watershed:
A Biography of Johannes Kepler
1960 - Anchor Books - 280 p
2
John Hudson Tiner
Johannes Kepler, Giant of Faith and Science
1977 - Mott Media - 200 p
3
James A. Connor
Kepler's Witch:
An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order
Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue,
and the Heresy Trial of His Mother
2004 - HarperSanFrancisco - 402 p
4
Mary Gow
Johannes Kepler:
Discovering the Laws of Planetary Motion
2003 - Enslow Publishers - 128 p
2
Heather Hasan
Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion
2005 - Rosen Pub. Group -
1
Atlas of the Skies:
Journeying Between the Stars and Planets
in the Discovery of the Universe
2003 - TAJ Books - 240 p
1
Patrick Moore
The Great Astronomical Revolution:
1534-1687 and the Space Age Epilogue
1994 - Albion Publishing -
none
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17th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
Italian Astronomers - Wikipedia
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) - Wikipedia
The Galileo Project - Rice University
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642.
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
1957 - Doubleday - 302 p
3
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Sidereus Nuncius - The Starry Messenger
none
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
1962 - University of California Press - 505 p
1
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
1933 - Macmillan - 300 p
1
Great Books of the Western world. 26:
Gilbert; Galileo; Harvey
1990 - Encyclopaedia Britannica - 2nd ed.
4
James Reston
Galileo: A Life
1994 - HarperCollins Publishers - 319 p
5
Stillman Drake
Galileo at Work:
His Scientific Biography
1978 - University of Chicago Press - 536 p
1
Stillman Drake
Galileo Studies:
Personality, Tradition, and Revolution
1970 - University of Michigan Press - 289 p
1
Laura Fermi
Galileo and the Scientific Revolution
1961 - Basic Books - 150 p
2
Eileen Reeves
Galileo's Glassworks:
The Telescope and the Mirror
2008 - Harvard University Press - 240 p
1
Alfred Noyes
Watchers of the Sky
1922 - Frederick A. Stokes - 281 p
1
Carlo Luigi Golino
Galileo Reappraised
1966 - University of California Press - 110 p
1
Karl von Gebler
Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia:
From Authentic Sources
1977 - Richwood Pub. Co. - 356 p
1
William R. Shea
Galileo in Rome:
The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius
2003 - Oxford University Press - 226 p
4
Eric Flint
1634:
The Galileo Affair
2004 - Baen Books - 549 p
8
Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992
2005 - University of California Press - 485 p
1
Pietro Redondi
Galileo Heretic = Galileo Eretico
1987 - Princeton University Press - 356 p
1
Giorgio De Santillana
The Crime of Galileo
1962 - Time - 371 p
1
Sidney Rosen
Galileo and the Magic Numbers
1958 - Little, Brown - 212 p
2
Ludovico Geymonat
Galileo Galilei:
A Biography and Inquiry into
His Philosophy of Science
1965 - McGraw-Hill - 260 p
1
The Achievement of Galileo
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
1962 - Twayne Publishers - 256 p
1
Jerome J. Langford
Galileo, Science, and the Church
1992 - University of Michigan Press - 3rd ed. - 225 p
1
Wade Rowland
Galileo's Mistake
A New Look at the Epic Confrontation
Between Galileo and the Church
2003 - Arcade Pub. - 298 p
5
Stephen P. Maran and Laurence A. Marschall
Galileo's New Universe:
The Revolution in Our Understanding of the Cosmos
2009 - BenBella Books - 174 p
1
William Bixby
The Universe of Galileo and Newton
1964 - American Heritage Pub. Co.; Harper and Row - 153 p
1
Charles E. Hummel
The Galileo Connection:
Resolving Conflicts Between Science and the Bible
1986 - InterVarsity Press - 293 p
2
Manfred Weidhorn
The Person of the Millennium:
The unique Impact of Galileo on World History
2005 - iUniverse - 161 p
2
Maria Celeste Galilei 1600-1634
Letters to Father:
Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
2001 - Walker and Co. - 377 p
2
Dava Sobel
Galileo's Daughter:
A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
1999 - Walker and Co. - 420 p
31
Galileo, Man of Science
1967 - Basic Books - 455 p
1
Bertolt Brecht
Life of Galileo
1994 - Arcade Pub.; Little, Brown - 265 p
5
William J. Boerst
Galileo Galilei and the Science of Motion
2004 - Morgan Reynolds Pub. - 144 p
2
Colin A. Ronan
Galileo
1974 - Putnam - 264 p
2
Dudley Shapere
Galileo:
A Philosophical Study
1974 - University of Chicago Press - 161 p
1
James Brodrick
Galileo:
The Man, His Work, His Misfortunes
1964 - Harper and Row - 152 p
1
Paul Hightower
Galileo:
Astronomer and Physicist
1997 - Enslow Publishers - 128 p
4
Deborah Hitzeroth
Galileo Galilei
1992 - Lucent Books - 96 p
4
James H. MacLachlan
Galileo Galilei:
First Physicist
1997 - Oxford University Press - 126 p
3
William J. Boerst
Galileo Galilei and the Science of Motion
2004 - Morgan Reynolds Pub. - 144 p
2
Robin S. Doak
Galileo:
Astronomer and Physicist
2005 - Compass Point Books - 112 p
3
Rachel Hilliam
Galileo Galilei:
Father of Modern Science
2005 - Rosen Pub. Group - 112 p
1
Peter Sis
Starry Messenger:
A Book Depicting the Life of a Famous
Scientist, Mathematician, Astronomer,
Philosopher, Physicist, Galileo Galilei
1996 - Farrar Straus Giroux -
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17th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
English Astronomers - Wikipedia
Newton's Papers - Cambridge University
Isaac Newton (1643-1727) - Wikipedia
Edmond Halley (1656-1742) - Wikipedia
Isaac Newton
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1952 - Encyclopaedia Britannica Great Books - 619 p
6
Richard S. Westfall
Never at Rest:
A Biography of Isaac Newton
1983 - Cambridge University Press - rev ed - 908 p
1
Richard S. Westfall
Never at Rest:
A Biography of Isaac Newton
1980 - Cambridge University Press - 908 p
3
James Gleick
Isaac Newton
2003 - Pantheon Books - 272 p
11
Frank Edward Manuel
A Portrait of Isaac Newton
1968 - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press - 478 p
1
Gale E. Christianson
In the Presence of the Creator:
Isaac Newton and His Times
1984 - Free Press; Collier Macmillan - 623 p
2
Gale E. Christianson
Isaac Newton and the Scientific Revolution
1996 - Oxford University Press - 155 p
4
Gale E. Christianson
Isaac Newton
2005 - Oxford University Press - 144 p
1
Peter Ackroyd
Newton
2006 - Nan A. Talese; Doubleday - 176 p
5
J. W. N. Sullivan
Isaac Newton, 1643-1727
1938 - Macmillan - 275 p
1
E. N. da C. Andrade
Sir Isaac Newton
1654 - Doubleday - 144 p
2
John Fauvel
Let Newton Be!
1988 - Oxford University Press - 272 p
1
Thomas Levenson
Newton and the Counterfeiter:
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
2009 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 336 p
(Newton at the Royal Mint)
3
Michael White
Isaac Newton:
The Last Sorcerer
1997 - Addison-Wesley - 402 p
6
Alain Bauer
Isaac Newton's Freemasonry:
The Alchemy of Science and Mysticism
2007 - Inner Traditions - 146 p
1
Patricia Fara
Newton:
The Making of Genius
2002 - Columbia University Press - 347 p
1
David Berlinski
Newton's Gift:
How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World
2000 - Free Press - 217 p
6
Ivars Peterson
Newton's Clock:
Chaos in the Solar System
1993 - W.H. Freeeman and Co. - 317 p
2
On the Shoulders of Giants:
The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
2002 - Running Press - 1264 p
6
Jason Socrates Bardi
The Calculus Wars:
Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest
Mathematical Clash of All Time
2006 - Thunder's Mouth Press - 277 p
1
William Bixby
The Universe of Galileo and Newton
1964 - American Heritage Pub. Co.; Harper and Row - 153 p
1
Robert H. Hurlbutt
Hume, Newton, and the Design Argument
1965 - University of Nebraska Press - 221 p
1
Harry Sootin
Isaac Newton
1955 - Messner - 191 p
1
Norriss S. Hetherington
Planetary Motions:
A Historical Perspective
2006 - Greenwood Press - 224 p
2
John R. Gribbin
The Fellowship:
Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton,
and the Story of a Scientific Revolution
2005 - Overlook Press - 335 p
3
Colin A. Ronan
Edmond Halley:
Genius in Eclipse
1969 - Doubleday - 251 p
1
Mary Virginia Fox
Scheduling the Heavens:
The Story of Edmond Halley
2006 - Morgan Reynolds Pub. -
2
Alan Cook
Edmond Halley:
Charting the Heavens and the Seas
1998 - Oxford University Press - 576 pages
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Books - 18th and 19th Centuries
18th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
19th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
Astronomers by Nationality - Wikipedia
A Brief History of Optics
Astronomical Instrument Makers - Wikipedia
Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) - Wikipedia
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) - Wikipedia
Roger Hahn
Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827:
A Determined Scientist
2005 - Harvard University Press - 310 p
1
Charles Coulston Gillispie
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827
2000 - Princeton University Press - 336 p
none
Ronald L. Numbers
Creation by Natural Law:
Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis in American Thought
1977 - University of Washington Press - 184 p
1
Michael J. Crowe
The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750-1900:
The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell
1986 - Cambridge University Press -
none
William Herschel (1738-1822) - Wikipedia
J. L. E. Dreyer (ed.)
The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel
1912 - Kessinger Publishing - vol 1 - 764 p
none
Edward Singleton Holden
Sir William Herschel:
His Life and Works
1881 - Charles Scribner's Sons - 238 p
none
Michael A. Hoskin
Discoverers of the Universe:
William and Caroline Herschel
2011 - Princeton University Press - 272 p
none
Michael A. Hoskin
William Herschel and the Construction of the Heavens
1963 - Norton - 199 p
William Herschel (1738-1822)
1
Michael A. Hoskin
The Herschel Partnership
2003 - Science History Publications - 190 p
none
Michael D. Lemonick
The Georgian Star:
How William and Caroline Herschel Revolutionized
Our Understanding of the Cosmos
2009 - W.W. Norton -
1
Padma Venkatraman
Double Stars:
The Story of Caroline Herschel
2007 - Morgan Reynolds Publishing - 176 p
none
Constance A. Lubbock
The Herschel Chronicle:
The Life Story of William Herschel
and His Sister Caroline Herschel
1933 - Cambridge University Press -
none
Stuart Clark
The Sun Kings:
The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington
and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began
2007 - Princeton University Press - 211 p
2
Angus Armitage
William Herschel
1962 - Thomas Nelson and Sons - 158 p
none
Deborah Crawford
The King's Astronomer, William Herschel
1968 - Messner -
none
J. B. Sidgwick
William Herschel, Explorer of the Heavens
1953 - Faber and Faber - 228 p
none
James Sime
William Herschel and His Work
2008 - BiblioLife - 276 p
none
James Sime
William Herschel and His Work
1900 - T. & T. Clark -
none
John F. W. Herschel
Outlines of Astronomy
1860 - Blanchard and Lea -
none
Gunther Buttmann
The Shadow of the Telescope:
A Biography of John Herschel
1970 - Scribner's Sons - 219 p
1
Michael J. Crowe
Modern Theories of the Universe from Herschel to Hubble
1994 - Dover Publications -
none
Michael J. Crowe
Theories of the World from Antiquity
to the Copernican Revolution
1990 - Dover Publications -
none
Richard Holmes
The Age of Wonder:
How the Romantic Generation Discovered
the Beauty and Terror of Science
2008 - Pantheon Books - 552 p
4
John Goodricke (1764-1786) - eclipsing binaries - Wikipedia
Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) - Wikipedia
Fourier Optics - Wikipedia
Thomas Young (1773-1829) - Wikipedia
Andrew Robinson
The Last Man Who Knew Everything:
Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who
Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See,
Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
2006 - Pi Press - 288 p
2
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846) - parallax distances - Wikipedia
Jürgen Hamel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
1984 - BDB B. G. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft -
none
Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) - Wikipedia
Fraunhofer Lines - Wikipedia
Fraunhofer Diffraction - Wikipedia
Spectrum of Belief:
Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
2000 - The MIT Press - 236 p
none
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827) - Wikipedia
Fresnel Diffraction - Wikipedia
George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) - Wikipedia
Airy Disk - Wikipedia
Point Spread Function - Wikipedia
The Airy Disk - And Why You Can’t Avoid It
Thomas William Webb (1807-1885) - Wikipedia
The Webb Society
Rev. T. W. Webb
T. W. Webb
Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes
1917 - Longmans, Green and Co. -
none
Transit of Venus - Wikipedia
Transit of Venus 2012 - Wikipedia
2004 and 2012 Transits of Venus - NASA
transitofvenus.org
The History of the Transit of Venus
William Sheehan and John Westfall
The Transits of Venus
2004 - Prometheus Books - 407 p
1
Eli Maor
June 8, 2004:
Venus in Transit
2000 - Princeton University Press - 186 p
3
David Sellers
The Transit of Venus:
The Quest to Find the True Distance of the Sun
2001 - MagaVelda Press -
none
Harry Woolf
The Transits of Venus
1959 - Princeton University Press -
none
Nick Lomb
Transit of Venus:
1631 to the Present
2012 - The Experiment - 240 p
none
Michael Maunder and Patrick Moore
Transit:
When Planets Cross the Sun
1999 - Springer - 172 p
none
Jean Meeus
Transits
1998 - Willmann-Bell - 75 p
none
Jeremiah Horrocks - Wikipedia
Jeremiah Horrocks - Father of British Astronomy
Richard A. Proctor
Transits of Venus:
A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits from the First
Observed by Horrocks A.D. 1639 to the Transit of A.D. 2012
1874 - Longmans, Green -
none
Arundell Blount Whatton
Memoir of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox,
Curate of Hoole, near Preston; to Which Is Appended
a Translation of His Celebrated Discourse upon the
Transit of Venus across the Sun
1859 - Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt -
none
Peter Aughton
The Transit of Venus:
The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks,
Father of British Astronomy
2005 - Orion Publishing - 232 p
none
Peter Adds, Paul Callaghan, Hamish Campbell,
Richard Hall, Anne Salmond, and Duncan Steel
The Transit of Venus:
How a Rare Astronomical Alignment Changed the World
2008 - Awa Press - 128 p
none
Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. (ed.)
The 1769 Transit of Venus:
The Baja California Observations of Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche,
Vicente de Doz, and Joaquin Velázquez Cardenas de León
1982 - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County -
none
Willy Ley
Watchers of the Skies:
An Informal History of Astronomy
from Babylon to the Space Age
1966 - Viking Press -
none
Simon Newcomb
The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
1903 - Harper and Brothers -
none
Simon Newcomb
Popular Astronomy
1880 - Harper -
none
Joseph Ashbrook
The Astronomical Scrapbook:
Skywatchers, Pioneers, and Seekers in Astronomy
1984 - Sky Publishing Corporation -
none
Brooke Hindle
The Pursuit of Science in Revolutionary America:
1735-1789
1956 - University of North Carolina Press -
[David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) and the 1769 transit]
1
Boris N. Menshutkin
Russia's Lomonosov
1952 - Princeton University Press -
[first to see the atmosphere of Venus during a transit]
none
Mary Proctor
Romance of the Sun
1927 - Harper -
none
Donald Fernie
The Whisper and the Vision:
The Voyages of the Astronomers
1976 - Clark, Irwin - 189 p
none
Peter Aughton
Endeavour:
The Story of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage
1999 - Barnes and Noble Inc. - 216 p
none
James Cook - A. Grenfell Price
The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific,
as Told by Selections of His Own Journals, 1768-1779
1971 - Dover Publications - 292 p
1
Richard Hough
Captain James Cook
1995 - W. W. Norton and Co. - 398 p
2
J. C. Beaglehole
The Life of Captain James Cook
1974 - Stanford University Press -
1
J. C. Beaglehole
The Journals of Captain Cook
1999 - Penguin -
none
J. C. Beaglehole
The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks
1963 - Angus and Robertson -
none
Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877) - Wikipedia
Johann Gottfried Galle (1812-1910) Neptune 23 Sept. 1846 - Wikipedia
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822-1875) - Wikipedia
John Couch Adams (1819-1892) - Wikipedia
Morton Grosser
The Discovery of Neptune
1962 - Harvard University Press - 170 p
none
Tom Standage
The Neptune File:
A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and
the Pioneers of Planet Hunting
2000 - Walker and Co. - 240 p
4
James Craig Watson (1838-1880) - asteroids, planet Vulcan - Wikipedia
Richard Baum and William Sheehan
In Search of Planet Vulcan:
The Ghost in Newton's Clockwork Universe
2003 - Basic Books - 328 p
none
Richard Baum
The Haunted Observatory:
Curiosities from the Astronomer's Cabinet
2007 - Prometheus Books - 416 p
1
Wilhelm Tempel (1821-1889) - comets - Wikipedia
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) - Wikipedia
Maxwell's Equations - Wikipedia
The James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
James Clerk Maxwell
A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
1873 - 2 vol - 3rd ed. -
none
James Clerk Maxwell
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field
none
Lewis Campbell and William Garnett
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell:
With Selections from His Correspondence
and Occasional Writings
1884 - Macmillan and Co. - 446 p
none
Basil Mahon
The Man Who Changed Everything:
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
2003 - Wiley - 246 p
none
Martin Goldman
The Demon in the Aether:
The Story of James Clerk Maxwell
1983 - 224 p
none
Ivan Tolstoy
James Clerk Maxwell:
A Biography
1982 - University of Chicago Press - 184 p
none
Peter M. Harman
The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell
1998 - Cambridge University Press -
none
C. F. W. Everitt
James Clerk Maxwell:
Physicist and Natural Philosopher
1975 - Charles Scribner's Sons -
none
C. Domb (ed.)
Clerk Maxwell and Modern Science
1963 - Athlone Press -
none
John Hendry
James Clerk Maxwell and the Theory
of the Electromagnetic Field
1986 - A. Hilger - 305 p
none
D. M. Siegel
Innovation in Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory
1991 - Cambridge University Press -
none
T. K. Simpson
Maxwell on the Electromagnetic Field
1997 - Rutgers University Press -
none
William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) - Wikipedia
Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) - Wikipedia
George Francis FitzGerald (1851-1901) - Wikipedia
Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940) - Wikipedia
John Henry Poynting (1852-1914) - Wikipedia
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) - Wikipedia
Bruce J. Hunt
The Maxwellians
1991 - Cornell University Press - 280 p
none
Oliver Heaviside
Electromagnetic Theory, Volume 1-3
2007 - Cosimo Classics - 536 p
none
Oliver Heaviside
Electrical Papers
2005 - Adamant Media Corporation - 584 p
none
P. J. Nahin
Oliver Heaviside, Sage in Solitude
1988 - IEEE Press -
none
Basil Mahon
Oliver Heaviside:
Maverick Mastermind of Electricity
2009 - Institution of Engineering and Technology - 224 p
none
Ido Yavetz
From Obscurity to Enigma:
The Work of Oliver Heaviside, 1872-1891
1995 - Birkhäuser Basel - 334 p
none
Robyn Arianrhod
Einstein's Heroes:
Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics
2005 - Oxford University Press - 323 p
5
Albert Abraham Michelson (1852-1931) - Wikipedia
Albert Abraham Michelson - bio
Edward Williams Morley (1838-1923) - Wikipedia
Michelson–Morley Experiment - Wikipedia
Dorothy Michelson Livingston
The Master of Light:
A Biography of Albert A. Michelson
1973 - Scribner - 376 p
1
Bernard Jaffe
Michelson and the Speed of Light
1960 - Doubleday - 197 p
1
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793-1864) - double stars - Wikipedia
Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819-1905) - double stars - Wikipedia
William Huggins (1824-1910) - spectroscopy - Wikipedia
Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848-1915) - spectroscopy - Wikipedia
Margaret Lindsay Huggins
William Huggins
William and Margaret Huggins and the Origins of Astrophysics
Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) - helium on the Sun - Wikipedia
Pierre Jules César Janssen (1824-1907) - helium on the Sun - Wikipedia
William Ramsay (1852-1916) - helium on Earth - Wikipedia
Helium - Wikipedia
Arthur Jack Meadows
Science and Controversy:
A Biography of Sir Norman Lockyer
1972 - MIT Press - 331 p
1
James Edward Keeler (1857-1900) - Wikipedia
James Edward Keeler - biography
Pioneer American Astrophysicist
Donald E. Osterbrock
James E. Keeler:
Pioneer American Astrophysicist:
And the Early Development of American Astrophysics
2002 - Cambridge University Press - 424 p
James E. Keeler (1857-1900)
none
Percival Lawrence Lowell (1855-1916) - Wikipedia
William Graves Hoyt
Lowell and Mars
1976 - University of Arizona Press -
none
David Strauss
Percival Lowell:
The Culture and Science of a Boston Brahmin
2001 - Harvard University Press - 352 p
none
Percival Lowell
Mars: Is There Life On Mars?
2008 - Forgotten Books - 102 p
none
Percival Lowell
Mars as the Abode Of Life (1908)
2008 - Kessinger Publishing, LLC - 320 p
none
Percival Lowell
Mars and Its Canals (1911)
2008 - Kessinger Publishing, LLC - 440 p
none
M. T. Brück
Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics
2002 - Cambridge University Press - 286 p
1 - from MAS 2009
Agnes Mary Clerke
A Popular History of Astronomy
during the Nineteenth Century
1885 - Adam and Charles Black -
1902 - 4th ed.
none
Agnes Mary Clerke
The System of the Stars
1890 - Adam and Charles Black -
none
Agnes Mary Clerke
Problems in Astrophysics
1902 - Adam and Charles Black -
none
Agnes Mary Clerke
Modern Cosmogonies
1905 - Adam and Charles Black -
none
Allan Chapman
The Victorian Amateur Astronomer:
Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920
1999 - Praxis Publishing -
none
George Forbes
David Gill, Man and Astronomer
1916 - John Murray -
none
John Lankford
American Astronomy:
Community, Careers, and Power, 1859-1940
1997 - University Of Chicago Press - 474 p
none
Edward Emerson Barnard (1857-1923) - Wikipedia
E. E. Barnard
E. E. Barnard - bio
E. E. Barnard - photos - Milky Way
William Sheehan
The Immortal Fire Within:
Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard
1995 - Cambridge University Press -
none
Robert S. Richardson
The Star Lovers
1967 - MacMillan Company - 310 p
biographies of 16 astronomers
available from Outer Library Loan
none
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Books - 20th and 21st Centuries
20th Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
21st Century Astronomers - Wikipedia
Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873-1967) - Wikipedia
Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957) - Wikipedia
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - Wikipedia
David H. DeVorkin
Henry Norris Russell
2000 - Princeton University Press - 528 p
none
Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) - Wikipedia
The Shapley-Curtis Debate
Harlow Shapley
Beyond the Observatory
1967 - Scribner's -
none
Frank H. Shu
The Physical Universe:
An Introduction to Astronomy
1982 - University Science Books - 584 p
none
R. W. Smith
The Expanding Universe:
Astronomy's 'Great Debate' 1900-1931
1982 - Cambridge Univesity Press -
none
O. Struve and V. Zebergs
Astronomy of the 20th Century
1962 - McMillan -
none
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) - Wikipedia
Sir Arthur Eddington
S. Chandrasekhar
Eddington
1983 - Cambridge Univ. Press -
none
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Space, Time and Gravitation:
An Outline of the General Relativity Theory
1966 - 218 pages
none
Arthur Stanley Eddington
The Expanding Universe
1933 - 127 pages
none
Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919) - Wikipedia
William Henry Pickering (1858-1938) - Wikipedia
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) - Cepheids - Wikipedia
Vesto Melvin Slipher (1875-1969) - galactic redshifts - Wikipedia
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) - Wikipedia
Edwin Hubble - by Allan Sandage
Hubble's Law - Wikipedia
Milton Lasell Humason (1891-1972) - Wikipedia
Women in Astronomy
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) - Wikipedia
Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) - Big Bang - Wikipedia
The Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker Metric - Wikipedia
Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann (1888-1925) - Wikipedia
Gale E. Christianson
Edwin Hubble:
Mariner of the Nebulae
1995 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 420 p
3
Claire L. Datnow
Edwin Hubble:
Discoverer of Galaxies
1997 - Enslow - 128 p
6
Edwin Hubble
The Realm of the Nebulae
1936 - Dover Publications -
none
George Johnson
Miss Leavitt's Stars:
The Untold Story of the Woman Who
Discovered How to Measure the Universe
2005 - W. W. Norton and Company - 162 p
7
David H. Clark and Matthew D.H. Clark
Measuring the Cosmos:
How Scientists Discovered the
Dimensions of the Universe
2004 - Rutgers University Press - 202 p
2
Alan W. Hirshfeld
Parallax:
The Race to Measure the Cosmos
2001 - W.H. Freeman and Co. - 314 pp
3
Stephen Webb
Measuring the Universe:
The Cosmological Distance Ladder
1999 - Springer - 358 p
none
Kitty Ferguson
Measuring the Universe:
Our Historic Quest to Chart the
Horizons of Space and Time
1999 - Walker and Company - 342 p
2
Albert Van Helden
Measuring the Universe:
Cosmic Dimensions from Aristarchus to Halley
1986 - University Of Chicago Press - 212 p
none
J. Richard Gott
Sizing Up the Universe:
The Cosmos in Perspective
2011 - National Geographic - 246 p
3
Heinrich Eichhorn
Astronomy of Star Positions
1974 - Frederick Ungar Publishing Company -
none
David A. Weintraub
How Old Is the Universe?
2011 - Princeton University Press - 370 p
2
John R. Gribbin
The Birth of Time:
How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe
1999 - Yale University Press - 237 p
9
Paul Murdin
Secrets of the Universe:
How We Discovered the Cosmos
2010 - University of Chicago Press - 341 p
2
Richard Berendzen, Richard Hart, and Daniel Seeley
Man Discovers the Galaxies
1976 - Science History Publications - 228 p
1
Charles Whitney
The Discovery of the Galaxy
1971 - Alfred A. Knopf -
none
Walter Baade (1893-1960) - supernovae, neutron stars - Wikipedia
Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974) - supernovae, neutron stars - Wikipedia
Rudolph Minkowski (1895-1976) - type I and type II supernovae - Wikipedia
Rudolph Minkowski - bio
Supernova - Wikipedia
Neutron Star - Wikipedia
Donald E. Osterbrock
Walter Baade:
A Life in Astrophysics
2001 - Princeton University Press - 256 p
none
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) - Wikipedia
The Chandrasekhar Limit - Wikipedia
Kameshwar C. Wali
Chandra:
A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar
1992 - University Of Chicago Press - 341 p
1
Kameshwar C. Wali (ed.)
Chandrasekhar:
The Man Behind the Legend - Chandra Remembered
1997 - Imperial College Press - 223 p
none
G. Srinivasan (ed.)
From White Dwarfs to Black Holes:
The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar
1997 - The University of Chicago Press -
none
Arthur I. Miller
Empire of the Stars:
Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal
in the Quest for Black Holes
2005 - Houghton Mifflin - 364 p
4
Karl Guthe Jansky (1905-1950) - radio waves from the Milky Way - Wikipedia
Karl Jansky and the Discovery of Cosmic Radio Waves
Karl Jansky Radio Astronomy Monument
Grote Reber (1911-2002) - first parabolic radio telescope - Wikipedia
Reber Radio Telescope - Wheaton, Illinois - Wikipedia
Reber Radio Telescope replica - Green Bank, West Virginia
John Daniel Kraus (1910-2004) - radio astronomy at Ohio State University - Wikipedia
Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992) - radio astronomy - Wikipedia
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) - pulsars - Wikipedia
Anthony Hewish (1924-) - pulsars - Wikipedia
George Gamow (1904-1968) - predicted cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia
Philip James Edwin Peebles (1935-) - predicted cosmic microwave background - Wikipedia
Arno Allan Penzias (1933-) - cosmic microwave background - 1965 - Wikipedia
Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936-) - cosmic microwave background - 1965 - Wikipedia
Woodruff T. Sullivan
Cosmic Noise:
A History of Early Radio Astronomy
2009 - Cambridge University Press - 574 p
none
Benjamin K. Malphrus
The History of Radio Astronomy and the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory:
Evolution Toward Big Science
1996 - Krieger Publishing Company - 199 p
none
W. T. Sullivan
The Early Years of Radio Astronomy:
Reflections Fifty Years after Jansky's Discovery
2005 - Cambridge University Press - 432 p
none
David Owen Edge and Michael Mulkay
Astronomy Transformed:
Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain
1976 - John Wiley and Sons Inc. - 500 p
none
Peter Robertson
Beyond Southern Skies:
Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope
1992 - Cambridge University Press - 369 p
New South Wales, Australia
none
W. M. Goss and Richard X. McGee
Under the Radar:
The First Woman in Radio Astronomy:
Ruby Payne-Scott (1912-1981)
2009 - Springer - 354 p
none
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Books - Telescopes and Observatories
Astronomy - Wikipedia
Telescope - Wikipedia
Category:Telescopes - Wikipedia
History of the Telescope - Wikipedia
List of Astronomical Observatories - Wikipedia
Astronomical observatories by country - Wikipedia
Astronomical observatories in the United States - Wikipedia
Paris Observatory (estab. 1671) - Wikipedia
Royal Observatory, Greenwich (estab. 1675) - Wikipedia
United States Naval Observatory (estab. 1830) - Wikipedia
Berlin Observatory (estab. 1835) - Wikipedia
Pulkovo Observatory (estab. 1839) - Wikipedia
Harvard College Observatory (estab. 1839) - Wikipedia
Cincinnati Observatory (estab. 1843) - Wikipedia
Allegheny Observatory (estab. 1859) - Wikipedia
Washburn Observatory (estab. 1881) - Wikipedia
McCormick Observatory (estab. 1885) - Wikipedia
Dearborn Observatory (estab. 1888) - Wikipedia
Lowell Observatory - Flagstaff (estab. 1894) - Wikipedia
Mount Stromlo Observatory (estab. 1924) - Australia - Wikipedia
Siding Spring Observatory (estab. 1924) - Australia - Wikipedia
Perkins Observatory (estab. 1925) - Wikipedia
Telescope Types - Wikipedia
Largest Optical Reflecting Telescopes - Wikipedia
Large Binocular Telescope - Arizona - Wikipedia
Southern African Large Telescope - Wikipedia
Gran Telescopio Canarias - Wikipedia
Hobby-Eberly Telescope - Texas - Wikipedia
W. M. Keck Observatory - Hawaii - Wikipedia
Subaru Telescope - Hawaii - Wikipedia
Very Large Telescope - Chile - Wikipedia
Gemini Observatory - Hawaii, Chile - Wikipedia
Multiple Mirror Telescope - Arizona - Wikipedia
Radio Telescopes - Wikipedia
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - Wikipedia
NRAO Very Large Array (VLA)
Very Large Array (VLA) - Wikipedia
NRAO Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)
Very Long Baseline Array - Wikipedia
Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA)
Serge Brunier and Anne-Marie Lagrange
Great Observatories of the World
2005 - Firefly Books - 240 p
1
David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, and H. Otto Sibum (eds.)
The Heavens on Earth:
Observatories and Astronomy in
Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture
2010 - Duke University Press - 400 p
none
Douglas Isbell and Stephen Strom
Observatories of the Southwest:
A Guide for Curious Skywatchers
2009 - University of Arizona Press - 192 p
none
Roger Hutchins
British University Observatories 1772-1939
2008 - Ashgate - 560 p
none
W. H. McCrea
The Royal Greenwich Observatory
1975 - Her Majesty's Stationery Office -
none
Brian Warner
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1831:
The Founding of a Colonial Observatory
1995 - Kluwer Academic Publishers -
none
Brian Warner
Astronomers at the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope
1979 - A. A. Balkema -
none
David Gill
A History and Description of the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
1913 - His Majesty's Stationery Office -
none
Tom Frame
Stromlo:
An Australian Observatory
2004 - Allen and Unwin - 400 p
none
Duane S. Nickell
Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler:
Visiting Astronomy and Space
Exploration Sites Across America
2008 - Rutgers University Press - 256 p
none
Lick Observatory (estab. 1888) - Wikipedia
Donald E. Osterbrock
Eye on the Sky:
Lick Observatory's First Century
1988 - University of California Press - 295 p
1
Helen Wright
James Lick's Monument:
The Saga of Captain Richard Floyd and
the Building of the Lick Observatory
2003 - Cambridge University Press - 248 p
1 - from MAS 2009
Barry R. Parker
Stairway to the Stars:
The Story of the World's Largest Observatory
1994 - Plenum Press - 350 p
(Mauna Kea)
1
Rolf Willach
The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope
2008 - American Philosophical Society - 116 p
none
Albert van Helden
The Invention of the Telescope
1977 - American Philosophical Society -
none
Henry C. King
The History of the Telescope
1955 - Dover Publications - 480 p
none
Louis Bell
The Telescope
1922 - McGraw-Hill -
none
Deborah Jean Warner and Robert B. Ariail
Alvan Clark and Sons:
Artists in Optics
1995 - Willmann-Bell - 298 p
none
Fred Watson
Stargazer:
The Life and Times of the Telescope
2006 - Perseus Books Group - 342 p
aperture fever
5
Geoff Andersen
The Telescope:
Its History, Technology, and Future
2007 - Princeton University Press - 248 p
resolution limitations, mirror design,
adaptive optics, future telescopes
1
Isaac Asimov
Eyes on the Universe:
A History of the Telescope
1975 - Houghton Mifflin - 274 p
2
Richard Panek
Seeing and Believing:
How the Telescope Opened Our
Eyes and Minds to the Heavens
1999 - Penguin - 208 p
3
Govert Schilling and Lars Lindberg Christensen
Eyes on the Skies:
400 Years of Telescopic Discovery
2009 - Wiley-VCH; Har/DVD ed. - 132 p
1
Allan Chapman
Dividing the Circle:
The Development of Critical Angular
Measurement in Astronomy, 1500-1850
1990 - Ellis Horwood -
none
Berton C Willard
Russell W. Porter:
Arctic Explorer, Artist, Telescope Maker
1976 - Bond Wheelwright Co. - 274 p
none
Steven J. Dick
Sky and Ocean Joined:
The U.S. Naval Observatory 1830-2000
2002 - Cambridge University Press - 800 p
none
George Willis Ritchey (1864–1945) - Wikipedia
Henri Chrétien (1879–1956) - Wikipedia
Ritchey-Chrétien Telescope - Wikipedia
Donald E. Osterbrock
Pauper and Prince:
Ritchey, Hale, and Big American Telescopes
1993 - University of Arizona Press -
none
George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) - Wikipedia
Yerkes - George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale - Astrophysics
Helen Wright
Explorer of the Universe:
A Biography of George Ellery Hale
1994 - American Institute of Physics Press -
1
Helen Wright
The Legacy of George Ellery Hale:
Evolution of Astronomy and Scientific
Institutions, in Pictures and Documents
1972 - MIT Press - 293 p
1
Yerkes Observatory website
History of Yerkes Observatory
Yerkes Observatory (estab. 1897) - Wikipedia
Otto Struve (1897-1963) - Wikipedia
Largest Optical Refracting Telescopes - Wikipedia
Donald E. Osterbrock
Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950:
The Birth, Near Death, and Resurrection
of a Scientific Research Institution
1999 - University of Chicago Press - 394 p
none
McDonald Observatory - University of Texas
McDonald Observatory (estab. 1939) - Wikipedia
David S. Evans and J. Derrall Mulholland
Big and Bright:
A History of McDonald Observatory
1986 - University of Texas Press -
none
Mount Wilson Observatory (estab. 1904) - Wikipedia
Allan Sandage
Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington:
Volume 1, The Mount Wilson Observatory:
Breaking the Code of Cosmic Evolution
2005 - Cambridge University Press - 664 p
none
Palomar Observatory (estab. 1948) - Wikipedia
The 200-inch Hale Telescope - Wikipedia
David Oakes Woodbury
The Glass Giant of Palomar
1953 - Dodd, Mead - 390 p
none
Ronald Florence
The Perfect Machine:
Building the Palomar Telescope
1994 - HarperCollins -
2
Richard Preston
First Light:
The Search for the Edge of the Universe
1987 - Atlantic Monthly Press - 263 p
1
Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896-1964) - Wikipedia
Maksutov Telescope - Wikipedia
A Photovisual Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope
J. B. Zirker
An Acre of Glass:
A History and Forecast of the Telescope
2005 - The Johns Hopkins University Press - 343 p
1
W. Patrick McCray
Giant Telescopes:
Astronomical Ambition and the Promise of Technology
2006 - Harvard University Press - 367 p
1
Wallace Tucker and Karen Tucker
The Cosmic Inquirers:
Modern Telescopes and Their Makers
2000 - Harvard University Press; AuthorHouse - 251 p
the VLA radio telescope,
the Einstein X-ray Observatory,
the HEAC-3 gamma-ray experiment,
the infrared astronomy satellite, and
the Hubble Space Telescope
none
Peter L. Manly
Unusual Telescopes
1995 - Cambridge University Press - 240 p
none
Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. (1914-1997) - Wikipedia
Space Telescopes - Wikipedia
Hubble Space Telescope - Wikipedia
Herschel Space Observatory - ESA - Wikipedia
James Webb Space Telescope - infrared - Wikipedia
The James Webb Space Telescope - NASA
Spitzer Space Telescope - Wikipedia
Ultraviolet Telescopes - Wikipedia
X-ray Telescopes - Wikipedia
Bruce C. Murray
Journey into Space:
The First Three Decades of Space Exploration
1989 - Norton - 381 p
2
Michael Perryman
The Making of History's Greatest Star Map
2010 - Springer - 275 p
European Space Agency Hipparcos satellite
none
Lars Lindberg Christensen
Hubble:
15 Years of Discovery
2006 - Springer - 124 p
2
Robert Zimmerman
The Universe in a Mirror:
The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope
and the Visionaries Who Built It
2008 - Princeton University Press - 287 p
2
Robin Kerrod and Carole Stott
Hubble:
The Mirror on the Universe
2007 - Firefly Books - rev. ed. - 192 p
4
Eric Chaisson
The Hubble Wars:
Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in
the Two-Billion-Dollar Struggle Over
the Hubble Space Telescope
1994 - HarperCollins Publishers - 386 p
1
David Leverington
New Cosmic Horizons:
Space Astronomy from the V2
to the Hubble Space Telescope
2001 - Cambridge University Press - 507 p
1
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Hubble Vision:
Further Adventures with the
Hubble Space Telescope
1998 - Cambridge University Press - 2nd ed. - 224 p
3
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Hubble Vision:
Astronomy with the Hubble Space Telescope
1995 - Cambridge University Press - 252 p
6
Edward Weiler
Hubble:
A Journey Through Space and Time
2010 - Abrams - 144 p
none
Jay Barbree
A Journey Through Time:
Exploring the Universe with
the Hubble Space Telescope
1995 - Penguin Studio - 232 p
7
Simon Goodwin
Hubble's Universe:
A Portrait of Our Cosmos
1996 - Penguin Studio; Viking Penguin - 127 p
9
Tom Wilkie
Visions of Heaven:
The Mysteries of the Universe Revealed
by the Hubble Space Telescope
1998 - Hodder and Stoughton - 205 p
3
Daniel Fischer
Hubble Revisited:
New Images from the Discovery Machine
1998 - Copernicus - 216 p
2
Stuart Clark
Universe in Focus:
The Story of the Hubble Telescope
1997 - Barnes and Noble - 128 p
2
Leo Marriott
The Universe:
[images from the Hubble Telescope]
2004 - Chartwell Books - 255 p
1
David Devorkin and Robert Smith
Hubble:
Imaging Space and Time
2008 - National Geographic - 223 p
Hubble images
4
David H. DeVorkin
Practical Astronomy:
Lectures on Time, Place, and Space
1986 - Smithsonian Institution Press - 109 p
1
David Ghitelman
The Space Telescope
1987 - Gallery Books - 143 p
2
Beyond Earth:
Mapping the Universe
2002 - National Geographic - 255 p
2
The Herschel Space Observatory - far IR
ESA - Herschel images online
Wallace Tucker and Karen Tucker
Revealing the Universe:
The Making of the Chandra X-ray Observatory
2001 - Harvard University Press - 295 p
1
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